Riding-pad



1 (No Model.)

W. G. McNEELEY.

RIDING PAD.

No. 449,860. Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

NiTED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM C. MONEELY, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

RIDING-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.449,860, dated April 7, 1891.

Application filed August 5, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM C. MCNEELY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento. Sacramento county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Riding-Pads; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device to take the place of a ladys side-saddle, which I call a riding-path and it consists of the construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The figure represents my invention.

A represents the pad having the strap attached, by which it is secured to the horses back. This pad is so stuffed as to fit the back of thehorse upon each side of the backbone, and to leave aspace just over the backbone.

B is a plate or tree of metal or suitable material of U form, turned up at its end, so as to form the horns D and E. This plate is wholly outside of the pad and does not en- Serial No.361,135. (N0 model.)

hand side of the padis suspended the stirrup G, which is adjusted in the usual manner to suit the rider.

This devicecan be used with or without a blanket or saddle, and may be used in connection with a gentlemans saddle, thereby enabling a lady rider to use such a saddle and to have her limb suitably supported by the pad, which occupies a space in front of the saddle when the latter is used.

The device is secured in the same manner that a saddle would be secured.

By this construction I provide a very cheap and light device which contains the necessary elements of safety, and at the same time being suitable to the horses back.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A ladys ridingpad comprising a metal plate or tree bent upward in substantially U shape to form the horns, and suitably covered, a pad to which said plate or tree is riveted,-a stirrup-strap secured to the lower end of one side of the pad, a stirrup attached to said strap, andsuitable girth-straps, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

\VILLIAM O. MONEELY.

' Witnesses:

CALEB HARGRAVES, ROBERT GRANT POTTER. 

